About the USB naming scheme rant.

[Nedkely]

So i have watched the Techquickie video about the USB naming scheme, with linus ranting about its naming and i am pretty on his side on it. 

 I dont like these new names either and i fully support your rant, however you may missing one crucial thing that makes USB forum do all of this wonky stuff, and the reason is number in 4 is considered extremely unlucky and bad number, which brings trouble and even death itself. 

Check out google on chinese numerology about it, number 4 in their language is pronounced as "Si" and death is pronounced as "Shi" and these two are really similar to one another in speech thats why it is considered really unlucky number and causes massive tetraphobia in china. 

USB forum knew it, and also know if they would decide to name their "3.1" as "4.0" the technology they created actually would meet GIANT problems, chinese companies could have even refuse to build it and even government could get involved into this. They are so obsessed with this number so the point where they even avoid it in online games. 

If you know their culture and watch other youtubers from china on that stuff you will understand it, for them "death" is super tabu topic, they are afraid of this word much much more than any nation in the world, its a part of their value system to actually believe in this kind of stuff. 

It would be a shoot in the foot to give number 4 to any thing produced in china. 

[mariushm]

We have DDR 4

We have pci-e 4.0  (or will have)

We have quad core cpus (4 cores)

We have 4 memory slots on motherboards

 

They could just as easily call it USB 5.0 if this 4 was such a big deal...

They're just morons stupid at naming things.

 

[RejZoR]

Superstitions are such idiotic nonsense. There was so many products with number 4 and no one died because of it. Creative Audigy 4, GeForce 4, GeForce 400 series, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, graphic cards had 4GB VRAM etc. And they were all made somewhere in Asia. Heh.

[Sakkura]

USB 4 is coming soon, so this superstition is definitely not the reason for the wonky USB naming scheme.

[lewdicrous]

What I got from the rant is that they keep renaming existing types, instead of keeping the 3.# while just changing the #

[Fasauceome]

None of this is relevant to the rant because not only do the USB names only go up to a third iteration, but also Intel is making USB4 out of their thunderbolt standard.

 

So the proper naming scheme would be USB 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and USB4

[NeuesTestament]

USB 7.37 MAX is coming soon boys

[Evanair]

Pretty much the same stupid superstition that frequents hotels too... American hotels go from floor 12 to 14. 

 

[LienusLateTips]

6 hours ago, Alexsolo said:

Do you have a source for the info? It makes sense as a description. The same reason OnePlus skipped the OnePlus4 phone. 

4. 四. 

Death. 死.

 

Now, Google both of them, and find the pinyin. They are pronouced nearly the same, and people go crazy when they see it. Most buildings in China and Taiwan skip any floor number with 4. For example, Taipei 101 calls it's Floor 44 as "Floor 43a"

[MrFixitBlankFace]

You wanna know my take on it?

USB should have just stuck with Gen 3 (USB 3.0). then Gen 3.1, then 3.2.

And market it as SuperSpeed 1, SuperSpeed 2, etc.

 

Nothing wrong with Linus ranting about it though.  I totally understand his feelings.